Common Setup Tasks

I rarely need to set up machines often enough to remember the setup instructions and finding the documentation for setup sadly never seems to help. Lately I've been referring to the appendix on setup in Michele Bustamante's Learning WCF book when I need to install SQL, configure IIS, or work with certificates. Michele's setup instructions were only supposed to cover the samples in the book but I've found them to be better than the other resources that I've got on hand.

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